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Heres just some random info i found on some piracy protection software for r4 and other carts

Warning: Spoilers inside!

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The R4 card is the scourge of the Nintendo DS. It allows users to download free, illegal copies of Nintendo DS games with relative ease, and play them via the flash card.

Andrew Mclennan, CEO of Metaforic has been looking to wipe out the R4. A former game developer who released games on home consoles, PC and DS, Mclennan said some of his games would be pirated before they even appeared on the shelves.

"I've been a game developer for 17 years," Mclennan said. "Every single game that I ever made was pirated. ... That gets to be distressing. It made it impossible to make games as a professional game developer."

R4 sales have soared recently, causing this increase in piracy. It can be purchased for as little as $10 on the internet.

Mclennan isn't the only one that has been "distressed" over piracy. In 2008, Nintendo launched a lawsuit in Tokyo District Court, seeking an injunction against the sale of R4, claiming the use of R4 cards causes "severe damage" to the company, as well as its third-party partners. In March this year, the Tokyo court granted that injunction against the official R4 card, essentially making illegal the sale of the device.

But R4 devices continue to pop-up some areas in other parts of the world. While the device itself is technically legal, downloading the ROMs is not. Legal fuzzy areas aside, it's a fact that Nintendo wants to stop the circulation of R4 and the piracy that comes with it. Nintendo has hopes that Metaforic's tech, MetaFortress, will help combat the DS piracy.

"[Nintendo has] approved our technology at the highest level for Nintendo games," he said. "The engineering team has approved the technique."

Aside from Nintendo, Around six leading third-party DS game publishers will be implementing Metaforic’s solution, with games using the technology hitting shelves by the holidays this year, he added. Hopefully this new technology will prevent privacy in newer releases.

Since the existence of the lock, there has always been the lockpicker. Once the lockpicker figures out how to pick the lock, the lockmaker must design a better lock. Inevitably, the lockpicker always figures out how to pick the new lock. Thus the struggle continues between the lockmaker and the lockpicker.